Kentucky: Important JCTA Elections Happening Now.

 

Folks supporting the reform slate in the Jefferson County Teachers Association (JCTA) elections are appealing to any and all who are able to publish this slate to do so. If you have friends in Jefferson County or Louisville KY please share this information with them and get it in to the hands of JCTA teachers and other represented personnel. Here is a what Facts For Working People received from Kentucky folks supporting this slate.

 

Efforts to reach JCTA members using traditional communication channels have been subverted. Please help us get the message about this important election currently underway by sharing this list with JCPS teachers you know. These candidates will bring meaningful, transformative change to JCTA. Elections end Wednesday at 5 PM. Thank you!

 

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For more reading on the teachers battles go to the teacher, education and Kentucky labels on the right hand side of this blog.

Over the past period there have been huge struggles by teachers and other workers in education. We had the huge success in West Virginia in 2018 along with major protests and strikes throughout red states from Oklahoma to Arizona

 

In Kentucky the movement continued well in to 2019 and faced opposition not just from the employers but the conservative trade union leadership as well. The Jefferson County Public Schools (JCPS) which includes Louisville, is the 27^th largest school district in the country and teachers, librarians, counselors and other workers are represented by the Jefferson County Teachers Association.

 

During the height of the struggle in 2019 the present JCTA president Brent Kim called a press conference attended by leaders from Afscme, the Teamsters and SEIU and publicly condemned Jefferson County teachers and parents from shutting down the schools. John Stovall, president of Teamsters Local 783, accused those parents and teachers that called for sickouts when unions did not of “pimping”. This is how a weak leadership refers to rank and file revolts.

 

During the height of the battle against the Trumpian governor Black parents and teachers urged the Kentucky Education Association to which JCTA is affiliated to oppose a gang ordinance that would give more power to the police to stop and frisk people in their communities; but the leadership refused to do so.

 

Along with these struggle there has been a powerful united movement against police violence and the killing of Breona Taylor in particular.

 

Throughout the country there has to be an internal union struggle to change the disastrous pro-management concessionary policies of the present leadership. Please support this slate endorsed by Dear JCPS. Contact them here: www.dearjcps.com/jcta/